Arturo Frondizi

Arturo Frondizi Ercoli (28 October 1908-18 April 1995) was President of Argentina from 1 May 1958 to 29 March 1962, succeeding Pedro Eugenio Aramburu and preceding Jose Maria Guido. He was a member of the Radical Civic Union.

Biography
Arturo Frondizi Ercoli was born in Paso de los Libres, Corrientes, Argentina on 28 October 1908, the son of Italian immigrants from Umbria. The family relocated to Buenos Aires in 1923, and Frondizi became a member of the Radical Civic Union in 1932 and became a lawyer. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1946 and formed an intransigent wing of the party which split from the conservative and anti-Peronist Ricardo Balbin's wing of the party in 1956. In 1958, he was elected President of Argentina with support from former Justicialist Party members, but the military remained strong, maintaining the ban on Peronism and forcing him to adopt harsh austerity measures in 1959. By 1961, however, Frondizi had the support of much of the country's middle class, and the military was alienated by his attempt to lift the ban on Peronism and his meeting with Fidel Castro and Che Guevara (which had the goal of ending the rivalry between Cuba and the United States). In 1962, Frondizi lifted the ban of the Justicialist Party, which achieved electoral success in the March 1962 elections; the military responded by instigating a constitutional crisis and deposing Frondizi in a coup. He died in 1995 at the age of 86.